Tag Archives: school infection

Cleaning crews in schools are just like their counterparts in hospitals on the front lines of the war on disease. Cleaning Schools for Health, Not for Appearance discusses this in some detail. How schools are cleaned can and will impact the health of all building occupants, including students and faculty. Hygiene is involves much more than seemingly clean surfaces.

Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools is a comprehensive piece put out by the Environmental Protection Agency, focusing largely on surface hygiene. The EPA has created apps and a series of webinars outlining the threat of poor air quality. The air-surface interfaces in schools also impact air quality.

Schools remain a hot spot for community-acquired infection. All parents remember sending their kids to school for the first time. Weeks later, the family falls ill to the latest and greatest bug moving through the school system. It is important to consider using all the tools available to prevent and control the spread of infection and illness to reduce absences of staff and students and make the learning environment as positive as possible. Below are links that illustrate some of the problems schools and other facilities face as well as potential methods to reduce infection risks.

Locker Rooms Front Line Of MRSA Defense: Eyewitness News 5’s Kimberly Lohman takes you inside the University of Oklahoma football locker room, which is a front-line of defense against an aggressive “superbug.”

The Nano Safe blog is about to change. Nano Safe, Inc., is very focused on antimicrobial coating for medical devices. In the near future we are going to turn this blog over to a sister company and they will continue to write on infection control issues for the built environment. Stay tuned for more news on the blog shift.